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'''Learning Technology Partners''' (previously known as '''Convene''') is an early [[distance learning]] company and the largest company in that market.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} The software company

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was founded in the late 1980s by Larry Allen when he created collaborative seminary training programs. Although Convene still has collaborative software for use by some 15,000 religious leaders, it expanded into an international distance learning software company in 1993. It uses specialized software to facilitate online classes for over 100 universities.

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'''Learning Technology Partners''' (previously known as '''Convene''') is an early [[distance learning]] company and the largest company in that market.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} The software company

was founded in the late 1980s by Larry Allen when he created collaborative seminary training programs. Although Convene still has collaborative software for use by some 15,000 religious leaders, it expanded into an international distance learning software company in 1993. It uses specialized software to facilitate online classes for over 100 universities.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

==Learning Technology Partners International==

[[Image:Jeffery Stein crop.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Jeffery Stein, co-founder of Learning Technology Partners International]]

Between 1989 and 1993, Allen discussed the company with Jeffery Stein, who had founded an information process company called On-Line Business Systems. Working with Reda Athanasios, Stein, buoyed by his experience founding a computer-based service company, played the largest role in turning the early software company into Convene International. As part of its transformation, the company began offering [[asynchronous learning|asynchronous distance learning]] software in Windows (instead of DOS) and eventually added 24/7 phone tech support. The first major client to offer the service was the [[University of Phoenix]] online campus, then in its fledgling years. Convene International then expanded to over 45,000 students at more than 100 universities in the United States and elsewhere.